Today's News

The Brunswick County Board of Education will have a second and final reading of a uniform policy at its June 2 meeting. Students at Belville, Lincoln and Town Creek elementary schools will be required to wear uniforms when the 2009-2010 school year begins this August.

The board approved uniforms for the three schools in April, after a group of teachers and administrators from Lincoln Elementary initially approached the board and asked for approval for implementation of a school-wide uniform policy.

Employees at The Sign Shoppe in Supply display the new 34-foot long boat ‘wrap’ they created and placed on this boat belonging to Fulford Heating and Air. Shop owner Jerome Munna said boat wraps have been popular in bigger cities for years, and his store now has the technology to do it, as well. His employee, Bridget Cox, designed the ‘King Creecher’ sign to fit the perimeter of the boat. ‘It took all five of us to get the decal on it,’ he said, noting, ‘I’m proud of my staff. It looks great.’

BOILING SPRING LAKES—Calling it a “very significant day,” South Brunswick High School athletics director Chris Roehner introduced Roman Kelley as the new head coach of the Cougars’ football team on May 20.

Roehner gave a history lesson to explain why the hiring is so significant.

Roehner has been at South 12 years, and in his first five years, South had five different coaches. The last seven years, South has had two different coaches.

Ervin Hall wants to develop his basketball game, and that is one reason Hall, a South Brunswick senior, signed a letter of intent May 20 to attend Brunswick Community College and play for coach Walter Shaw’s Dolphins.

Shaw’s program is attractive to recruits for at least two reasons: It is a winning program (three region titles in five years) and it is a successful program (eight sophomores this year will play at four-year colleges next year, and six of those are Division I teams).

Holden Beach Commissioners must decide whether to keep or return about a million dollars the town has borrowed, they said at their first budget workshop Tuesday afternoon in town hall.

“The question now is to put the money back where it came from so it will paint a true picture of what things cost and we’ll have cash reserves on hand,” Mayor Alan Holden said. “You’ve got to have cash money in reserve.”